EBSCO HOST Database Tutorials
FILL OUT THE PAPER COPY OF THIS LESSON and TURN in at the end of CLASS
EBSCOHOST Lesson 2
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EBSCOHOST Lesson 2
GO to CCMS to LIBRARY to HOMEWORK. Click on EBSCOHOST LESSON 2.
Follow the links online as you fill in the answers below.
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After viewing and listening to this video ---Link to EBSCO EBSCOHOST Periodicals,newspapersand then search for information USING THE VISUAL SEARCH on your NHD topic. Write down SUBJECT keywords that come up when you narrow –or broaden your search.
Go back to the EBSCOHOST HOMEPAGE --to Basic Search.
- Search for an article that relates to your NHD topic in Basic Search. Use SUBJECT terms/keywords that you discovered during your Visual Search. Find an article that has an HTML full text version. Explore the “text to speech” option ---highlight one sentence or paragraph and listen as you read article.
- Using the Relevancy Sort option find the oldest article under your topic AND the most relevant,(according to EBSCO relevancy sort) Skim and scan both and then compare/contrast the value of each. Fill out the following:
SORTED: Oldest date /descending order
Title:
Author:
Source:
Date:
Can you see the full text?
Write a brief summary of your article focusing on information related to your thesis.
SORTED : Most relevant
Title:
Author:
Source:
Date:
Can you see the full text?
Write a brief summary of your article focusing on information related to your thesis.
Compare/Contrast the value of reading the ‘most relevant’ and the ‘oldest’:
5. Boolean Search—Databases often use Boolean Logic—using the terms AND, OR and NOT to limit searches. Read the Boolean Help Sheet below to familiarize yourself with these search strategies—apply them if you need to narrow your searches:
Give at least one example (use your NHD topic if applicable) of keywords and Boolean logic in an EBSCO search.
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Using the Boolean Search Operators
Boolean logic defines relationships between search terms. The Boolean search operators, AND, OR and NOT, allow you to broaden or focus your search results. When executing a search, AND takes precedence over OR.
- The AND operator combines search terms so that each result contains all of the terms. For example, travel AND expense will result in articles that contain both travel and expense.
- The OR operator combines search terms so that each result contains at least one of the terms. For example, tax OR revenue will result in articles that contain either tax or revenue.
- The NOT operator excludes search terms so that each result will not contain any of the terms that follow it. For example, television NOT cable will result in articles that contain the term television, but not the term cable.
When a single Find field is displayed, you can enter search terms in the Find field, and combine with AND, OR, and NOT. (For example, Roosevelt NOT Franklin.)
When Guided-Style Find fields are displayed, you can enter search terms in each Find field, and select AND, OR, and NOT from the Boolean drop-down lists.
With longer search strings, you can combine many terms in a search with the AND operator, which will narrow your search results. For example, heart AND lung AND bypass AND artery will provide a more focused search than heart AND lung OR bypass OR artery.
To make even better use of Boolean operators, you can enclose search terms and their operators in parentheses to specify the order in which they are interpreted. Information within parentheses is read first, and then information outside parentheses is read next. For example, (heart OR lung) AND bypass will return different results than heart OR lung AND bypass.
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